Actually this is an opportunity to satisfy the High Priest, Grover Norquist. The Republicans in Congress aren't going to renege on their anti-tax pledges, they're going to institute National Service Fees on income, sales, and capital gains.

Republicans are in favor of all the regressive ways to get money out of the population. That's why republican states with no income taxes usually have high fees, fines, property taxes, sales taxes and any other scheme they can to get most of their operating budgets out of the poor and middle class.

Nurglitch:Actually this is an opportunity to satisfy the High Priest, Grover Norquist. The Republicans in Congress aren't going to renege on their anti-tax pledges, they're going to institute National Service Fees on income, sales, and capital gains.

Tim Pawlenty tried that here in MN during his tenure - it sort of backfired.

In case anyone has missed it, republicans don't cut spending, which means they have to find money somewhere. So now you get fees, and the shiat eater you just voted in gets to run on not having raised taxes. And you'll vote for them again, because taxes.

This is literally true. Mort Roomney raised "fees" by millions of dollars while he was governer of MA.

Tim Pawlenty did it too in order to keep his no taxes pledge when he was Governor of MN. Except his fee's were ruled unconstitutional because they were really taxes. State budget looked great but property taxes went through the roof because the burden for mandatory services was pushed to the municipal levels.

HotWingConspiracy:In case anyone has missed it, republicans don't cut spending, which means they have to find money somewhere. So now you get fees, and the shiat eater you just voted in gets to run on not having raised taxes. And you'll vote for them again, because taxes.

Or realize a Democrat will be elected to clean up the mess, so they'll be able to go nuclear on the "huge deficit tax and spenders," after spending eight years not saying a f*cking thing about their president's deficits.

Citrate1007:Jackson Herring: Citrate1007: This is what conservatives really think.

This is literally true. Mort Roomney raised "fees" by millions of dollars while he was governer of MA.

Tim Pawlenty did it too in order to keep his no taxes pledge when he was Governor of MN. Except his fee's were ruled unconstitutional because they were really taxes. State budget looked great but property taxes went through the roof because the burden for mandatory services was pushed to the municipal levels.

I was a judicial clerk back when that happened - oh, we're we happy to see Pawlenty get shut down, especially since he treated us like an agency instead of an equal branch of government.